Residential Real Estate

D.R. Horton Inc. has won the race with top honors in a count of single-family residential building permits issued in Mecklenburg County in 2014. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company led by far in both the number of permits issued and ...

The year brought a lot of big news in real estate, construction and development in Charlotte, including the conviction of Mayor Patrick Cannon in a development-related bribery scandal; a continued apartment construction boom; announcements and groundbreakings for the first office ...

A stucco manufacturer that advertised a 20-year warranty may have to make good on that offer, despite a North Carolina law that generally requires any lawsuits over real property improvements to be brought within six years of the construction’s completion. ...

The Charlotte area saw a 6 percent increase in median home prices for the year ending in November, according to RealtyTrac. In the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia statistical area, the median home price, including distressed sales, was $157,000 last month, up from $148,000 ...

It’s less expensive to buy a home than to rent a three-bedroom apartment in Mecklenburg County, according to a RealtyTrac report. The average rent for a three-bedroom property in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia area will be $1,120 next year, up 2 percent ...

A 47-year-old Charlotte woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her part in a widespread $75 million mortgage fraud and money laundering scheme, the investigation of which became known as “Operation Wax House.” Michelle Mallard pleaded ...

Last June, Graziella Steele and her husband David bought a house in the popular Highland Creek subdivision in the University Area. Several months later, she paid her portion of the 2014 property tax. Then, in early December, she was surprised ...

HUNTERSVILLE –Epcon Communities’ rezoning petition and sketch plan for an age-restricted community will go to the Huntersville Town Board of Commissioners on Jan. 5 with both the town’s planning staff and Planning Board recommending they not be approved. The Planning ...

Charlotte ranks fifth among regions with the most homes sold to institutional investors between January 2012 and August, but so far the equity gained in those homes trails behind six of the regions in the top 10, according to real ...